Henri Cook's Blog

I published a barely-maintained fork of Ghostty that restores your session on Linux: tabs, split layouts, tab names and working directories.

I saw a project by @acervenky on GitHub where they'd wired up a small OLED screen to show their Claude usage in real-time.

As a Senior Staff Developer with an AI focus at CreateiQ I’ve been glued to my news feeds for the last year.

As an experienced Software Engineer, keeping my systems secure is crucial.

Next Auth (now known as Auth.js) is a bit of a hot mess.

I've had a really bad experience with Shadow.tech Support, they make it seem like all versions of Ubuntu are supported on their website and they most definitely are not.

Do you want to browse a Lucene index on disk?

TL;DR Okta doesn't enforce expiry checks on signing certificates for identity providers, and you have no other option but to accept it.

Get the text body of a response with EntityDecoder If you've got a request like this: val postRequest: Task[Request[Task]] = POST( payload, uri ...

I made a thing, it's a tiny service that checks passwords against the NCSC top 100k list.

Whilst installing Streisand on Ubuntu 20.04 I came across this error related to dnsmasq.

Recently a friend was desperately trying to find a hotel in Paris, for reasons unknown lastminute.com choose to declare some hotels 'top secret hotels', obscure their images and not tell you exactly where they are on the map... remarkably inconvenien...

Hellofresh — Cool, don’t have to do any shopping for dinner.

The ultimate guide to cooking a Sunday roast alone with only one oven Dad help I need to cook a Sunday roast for 10 people and I can’t figure out how this is going to work with just one oven  — my cry echoed down the phone.

If you have an aliased domain you use to send mail as part of your Google Apps account and are annoyed by the “on behalf of” that appears when recipients read your messages, this is for you. e.g.

Running nvidia-390 or -396 on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) and 17.10 on a Windows dual boot machine I would sometimes encounter a blank screen after grub, especially when rebooting from Windows and attempting to boot to linux.

This is a niche post, I had a world of hurt trying to reinstall windows on a machine where it had worked previously with my PCIe NVMe drive.

Tried NordVPN, Private Internet Access (PIA) and others After a lot of experiment on my RT-AC87U and pulling of hair over *dreadful* VPN speeds i’ve come to the conclusion that it just doesn’t have the processing power to handle encryption overhead. ...

Solution to “sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: No trusted certificate found” when installing SBT on a new (Ubuntu) system: I had a perplexing problem on my new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system today.

I take these git aliases from project to project with me, here they are in case they’re good for you too!

This happened to me.

On a new build of Ubuntu 15.10, whenever playing Prison Architect there was a constant crackling/popping over the top of the game music and effects.

I’ve recently tried out the YT Analytics sample application.

Ever since Ubuntu Gutsy i’ve had issues with the wired ethernet (MCP55) on my ABit IN-9 32X Max – there are two problems, i’ve summated them and the way that I work around them below: 1.

Our university firewall is shockingly restrictive, this meant that recently I couldn’t even download a game that I bought using Steam (this is my first time using the Steam system).